Sumanadevī untranslated

Sumanadevī 01. Mother of Mahā Kassapa Thera. Ap.ii.583.

Sumanadevī 02. Mother of Suppatiṭṭhita. Mhv­ṭ. 528.

Sumanadevī 03. Step sister of Khallāṭanāga. She had three sons – Tissa, Abhaya and Uttara who conspired against the king. On the failure of their conspiracy, they jumped into the fire on the spot where now stands the Abhayagiri cetiya. Mhv­ṭ. 612.

Sumanadevī 04. Youngest daughter of Anāthapiṇḍika. When her sisters, Mahā Subhaddā and Cūḷa Subhaddā, married and went to live with their husbands, Anāthapiṇḍika appointed her to look after the feeding of the monks in his house. She became a Sakadāgāmī and remained unmarried. Because of her failure to obtain a husband, she refused to eat, and fell ill. One day, when Anāthapiṇḍika was in the refectory, he received a message from her. He went immediately and asked her what was the matter. She addressed him as “Younger brother,” and saying that she had no fear, she died. Anāthapiṇḍika, in great sorrow, sought the Buddha and confessed his grief that she should have died while talking incoherently. The Buddha explained that, inasmuch as she was a Sakadāgāmī and he but a Sotāpanna, her addressing him as “Younger brother” was quite in order. After death she was born in Tusita, said the Buddha. Dhp­a.i.151f.

Sumanadevī 05. Mother of Visākhā. Her husband was Dhanañjaya, son of Meṇḍaka seṭṭhi of Bhaddiyanagara (Dhp­a.i.384f.; SN­a.i.116, etc.). She was one of the Mahā Puññā. Vsm.383; Paṭis-a.509, etc.